BLACKLINE

Leader in
Financial Corporate Performance Management
Alex Chun, VP, South East Asia

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 RECOGNIZED LEADER IN CLOUD FCPM

“ BlackLine is a Leader in this market. It

is one of two vendors that have
defined the cloud market for EFCA of
FCPM during the past five years.

BlackLine's reference customers gave

it high scores for customer

”
satisfaction and market execution.

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UNRIVALED GROWTH
2,200+ Clients / 193,000+ Users / 130+ Countries
Los Angeles / Chicago / Atlanta / New York
Vancouver / United Kingdom / France / Germany / South Africa
Ede / Sydney / Melbourne / Singapore / Kuala Lumpur

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 Prior Month
Sub-ledger Other Data Other Data Close Task
JEs, Recs
Data Sources Sources Assignments
And Flux

AUTOMATED INTERFACING BETWEEN DATA SOURCES & BLACKLINE PRODUCTS

Accounting Mgr., Internal

Accountants Approvers
Dir. of Accounting, & External
& Preparers & Reviewers Controller, CFO Auditors

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 Continuous Accounting Platform
SOLUTIONS

Finance Accounting Close Process Balance Sheet Intercompany Smart

Transformation Process Automation Management Integrity Hub Close
PRODUCTS

Consolidation
Account Task Transaction Daily Journal Variance
Integrity Insights
Reconciliations Management Matching Reconciliations Entry Analysis
Manager
CLOUD PLATFORM

Enterprise-Class Security

Enhanced Reporting, Dashboards, Benchmarking, Analytics, and Insights

Unified, Private, and ERP-Agnostic Cloud Platform

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 BLACKLINE SERVES GLOBAL ENTERPRISE COMPANIES

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 Tech & Financial Consumer Industrial
Healthcare Services
Telecom Services Retail Energy
Enterprise
Midsize
 Finance Transformation -
Impacts on the office of the CEO

Ann Furlong, Director of APAC Customer Team and Global Enablement

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THE WORLD HAS CHANGED
CFO and Controller Shift

1. Catalyst for change and strategic advisor to the business

2. Strong business partnership

3. Data-driven insights that support smarter decisions

4. Automation / RPA

5. Process Improvement
 Yet CFOs Face Roadblocks

69% 97% 68% 48%

Say manual effort Say retaining finance See IT processes See current
is the #1 bottleneck talent, yet only 33% and controls as a systems as barrier
in the financial give CFOs passing security risk to to effectiveness,
close process grade Finance mobility, cloud
 100%

Accountant
30%
75%
55%

WHAT IT MEANS 20%

Protector
50%

Keys to Transformation
20%
25% 50%

Leader
25%

0%
Where CFOs Are Where They're Headed
 Manual postings 69%

Manual effort 62%

IMPACT
System interfaces 55%
Productivity
Data quality 55%

Intercompany reconciliations 52%

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80%

 Uneven workload 61%

Overtime hours 46%

IMPACT
Frustration within F&A 36%
Employee
Engagement Dissatisfaction with timeliness 32%

Lack of faith in quality 18%

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70%

HOW DOES THE CFO
GET TO THE NEXT STEP

1. KPI’s and Business Metrics

2. Business Performance

3. Collaboration

4. Effective Technology

5. Business Partnership with CIO/CTO

TRANSFORMATION
Path To Success
 PATH TO SUCCESS
Building a Culture of Continuous Improvement

Analyze Design Optimize & Automate

Current State Future State Process

• Recognize the challenges of
current close procedures
• Consider visibility and
efficiency gaps
• Identify risk exposure
• Imagine the ideal state – What-If
Game
• Start with easy wins
• Identify critical areas for regular
review and proactive investigation
• Split batch processes into
smallest components
• Schedule components more often
• Embed in daily activities
• Automate where possible

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 PATH TO SUCCESS
Building a Culture of Continuous Improvement

Monitor Review Continuous

Metrics & Results Outcomes & Controls Improvement

• Leverage continuous activity to • Discover macro trends • Use Review stage

continuously review output
• Investigate alerts from flux analysis,
exceptions, and anomalies
• Make adjustments as needed in real
time
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• Identify process and controls
gaps
• Compare successes vs. original
objectives – trouble areas?
discoveries to Design a new
Future State
• Move to a more challenging
tier of improvements
• Focus on most risky or
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MANAGING BY EXCEPTION
Automating Finance & Accounting
 RECORD-TO-REPORT ASSEMBLY

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 CONTINUOUS ACCOUNTING

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Transforming Finance with Technology & Automation

1 2 3 4
Empower Finance to Facilitate process Break the rigid Enable continuous
provide strategic value and standardization, accounting calendar improvement in quality,
better guide business technical automation, of legacy processes accuracy, and efficiency
operations with real-time and continuous analysis to meet the needs of of accounting
intelligence modern business operations
 Account
Reconciliations

Intercompany Task
Hub Management

Transaction
Insights
Matching

RULES & ANALYSIS

BUSINESS BUSINESS
LOGIC
& REPORTS
F&A
DATA RESULTS
TEMPLATES WORKFLOW
Automated Journal
Journals Entry

Consolidation Variance
Integrity Analysis
Manager

Daily
Reconciliations

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 FIVE STEPS
TO MAKE ACCOUNTING CONTINUOUS

1 2 3 4 5
Split Schedule Embed Automate Monitor
batch processes tasks as early in tasks within a where possible; metrics to adapt
into smaller tasks the process as normal, everyday standardize and intervene in
possible workflow routine elsewhere real time

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 ACCOUNT RECONCILIATIONS

VARIANCE ANALYSIS

MATCHING & EXCEPTION MGMT.

AUTOMATION
OPPORTUNITIES JOURNAL ENTRIES

INTERCOMPANY TRANSACTIONS

ERP-BASED
#ITB16
REPORTING & TASKS
The Automation Journey

Intercompany Hub
Transformation Stage

Finance Performance Management Auto Journals

(Enhanced Reporting, Insights, Sandbox)
Journal Entry

Daily Reconciliations

Transaction Matching

Variance Analysis

Task Management

Account Reconciliations

1 2 3 4 5

PHASE 1 PHASE 2 PHASE 3

FINANCE-DRIVEN AUTOMATION
End-to-End Account Balance Substantiation and Reconciliation

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